President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will determine whether the Organised Labour will resume their strike or not. This is the position of the Nigerian Labour Congress, and Trade Union Congress, TUC, over the ongoing negotiation on the new minimum wage.
The President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero revealed the position of the unions on the issue on Monday in Geneva, Switzerland.
The magazine reported that the NLC and TUC suspended their strike last Tuesday following President Tinubu’s intervention. The unions had rejected the N62,000 offered by the federal government insisting on N250,000 minimum wage for Nigerian workers.
The president’s intervention brought the unions back to the negation table with the Tripartite committee set up by the federal government.
The committee is made up of the NLC, TUC, Federal and state governments and the representatives of the private sector.
Speaking yesterday, Ajaero said the NLC and TUC will await the president’s position on the issue to determine the next line of action.
Ajaero said: “We cannot declare strike now because the figures are with the President.
“During the tenure of the immediate past President, the figure that was proposed to him was N27,000 by the tripartite committee but he increased it to N30,000. We are hopeful that this President will do the right thing. The President had noted that the difference between N62,000 and N250,000 is a wide gulf.”
According to him, organized labour has not accepted the N62,000 proposal submitted by the Committee, stressing that labour could not embark on strike because the President had yet to communicate his decision on the issue.
On Monday, there were reports that the unions will call on their members to resume the strike after the federal government negotiation team proposed N62,000 as minimum wage.
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